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20th anniversary and new location AlphaKOR celebrates first 20 years By Anna Cabrera Cristofaro Special to The Star Twenty years. Forty employees. Four partners. It’s a Silicon Valley fairy tale come to life, dreamed up, founded and executed in Windsor. […]

Why do celebrities always look so good? Is it their makeup artists? Wardrobe stylists? Nannies and trainers? Nope - chances are it's because they had a good Photoshop artist giving them a digital do-over.

Senator Pamela Wallin is right, Canadians do need to take some personal responsibility when it comes to protecting themselves in the world of cyberspace. As she pointed out recently, we often take too much for granted when it comes to …

Sentries standing guard over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, sharks swimming next to houses, movie stills from The Day After Tomorrow - it's all fair game when there is a superstorm happening. Here's a look at the fake Sandy shots being circulated on social media.

At 8:03 on Saturday night, one minute before the worst quake in 60 years hit the west coast, on-call seismologist John Cassidy was on his hands and knees, sweating and straining as he ripped carpet up in his Sidney home.

The dark streaks in the 75-million-year-old rock that looked like feathers were joked about in the field, but it soon became clear to paleontologists that it was a significant find. The discovery of three fossils in Alberta, revealed Thursday, are the first feathered dinosaur specimens to be found in the Western Hemisphere. They show that ornithomimid dinosaurs, which resemble ostriches, had feathers.

Windsor’s ties to the Detroit Three car makers are making it difficult for the municipality to increase the number of environmentally friendly vehicles, Angela Marazita, the city’s fleet manager, said Thursday.
“We run into difficulties from a corporate perspective because …

HOLGUIN, Cuba - Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds that ripped the roofs off homes and damaged fragile coffee and tomato crops, but caused no known fatalities on the island.

With a nearly 90-year-old house in Rye, N.Y., Melanie Cadenhead spends a large part of every winter being cold. The temperature inside usually drops around the end of November and Cadenhead pulls out her sweaters. Having shelled out about $1,000 a month last winter trying to warm up the place, she does not plan to crank the heat any higher this year.

Ontario’s finance minister was in Calgary on Thursday to declare his province’s enthusiastic friendship and support for Alberta — and the province’s oilsands. Dwight Duncan, who spoke at a luncheon organized by the Alberta Enterprise Group, said he had been directed by Premier Dalton McGuinty “to reach out” and his visit was just the first step by Ontario’s Liberal government in building a stronger relationship with Alberta.

B.C. municipal leaders voted Wednesday for a resolution that calls for the decriminalization of marijuana, but they’re facing a major hurdle: convincing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government to change the law.

Sorry, fans of pop-punk band Blink-182, comedian Russell Peters, or country music artist Cole Swindell: Those shows at Caesars Windsor have been indefinitely postponed due to the ongoing worker strike.